AAG 2006: Success

So my first trip to the American Association of Geographer’s Annual Conference went off without a hitch. We left on Tuesday and got back early Sunday morning. I presented a post-structual analysis of a recent sighting of a Barn Owl on the Ontbirds listserv. It brought down the house.

We did get some weirdo show up to our panel and ask us if our work “counted” as geography. It was a funny question as for part of the preceeding week, I was wondering out-loud if I could really consider myself a geographer–I don’t. However, there has been more work done in recent years on Animal Geography and our panel fits right into that work. So perhaps I need to add Animal Geographer to the Environmental Educator and Environmental Philosopher behind my name. Or not.